What Are Little Boys Made Of?

In this original BTB Investigation, we unveil the tragic story of Kirk Murphy, a four-year-old boy who was treated for “cross-gender disturbance” in 1970 by a young grad student by the name of George Rekers. This story is a stark reminder that there are severe and damaging consequences when therapists try to ensure that boys will be boys.

Slouching Towards Kampala: Uganda’s Deadly Embrace of Hate

When we first reported on three American anti-gay activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than 500 posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be updated continuously as events continue to unfold. Check here for the latest updates.

David Benkof: Behind the Mask

At first glance, David Benkof appears to be a young gay man who believes that same-sex marriage will damage the institution of marriage, that there are better options for gay couples than marriage, that the community should join him in prioritizing other more pressing issues, and that the marriage discussion is harming the efforts of gay couples in red states to get recognition for their unions. He also claims that he’s a gay columnist, that he speaks for an influential collection of gay thinkers, and that he is part of the gay and lesbian community and that he shares our goals and dreams. But none of that is true.

“Repeat After Me”: The Reparative Therapy Echo Chamber

The April 2008 edition of the pay-to-publish vanity journal Psychological Reports featured a new report from NARTH. Written by NARTH president A. Dean Byrd, past president Joseph Nicolosi, and Richard W. Potts, the report carries the unwieldy but self-descriptive title, “Clients perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.” While the title describes what the authors meant to show — how clients describe the benefits of reparative therapy — the report itself actually illustrates something very different: the ex-gay movement’s remarkable ability to instill an almost robot-like parroting of ex-gay rhetoric among their clients.

Testing the Premise: Is MRSA The New Gay Plague?

The Toronto Star said that a new study “discover[ed] a new strain” of a super-bug “hitting gay men.” Headlines in Britain screamed, “Flesh-eating bug strikes San Francisco’s gay community,” and anti-gay extremists across America spread the alarm that gays were introducing another plague into “the general population.” But there was a small problem with all of this: None of it is true!

Paul Cameron’s World

In 2005, the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote that “[Paul] Cameron’s ‘science’ echoes Nazi Germany.” What the SPLC didn”t know was Cameron doesn’t just “echo” Nazi Germany. He quoted extensively from one of the Final Solution’s architects. This puts his fascination with quarantines, mandatory tattoos, and extermination being a “plausible idea” in a whole new and deeply disturbing light.

From the Inside: Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out”

On February 10, I attended an all-day “Love Won Out” ex-gay conference in Phoenix, put on by Focus on the Family and Exodus International. In this series of reports, I talk about what I learned there: the people who go to these conferences, the things that they hear, and what this all means for them, their families and for the rest of us.

The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing The Myths

At last, the truth can now be told.

Using the same research methods employed by most anti-gay political pressure groups, we examine the statistics and the case studies that dispel many of the myths about heterosexuality. Download your copy today!

Testing The Premise: Are Gays A Threat To Our Children?

Anti-gay activists often charge that gay men and women pose a threat to children. In this report, we explore the supposed connection between homosexuality and child sexual abuse, the conclusions reached by the most knowledgeable professionals in the field, and how anti-gay activists continue to ignore their findings. This has tremendous consequences, not just for gay men and women, but more importantly for the safety of all our children.

Straight From The Source: What the “Dutch Study” Really Says About Gay Couples

Anti-gay activists often cite the “Dutch Study” to claim that gay unions last only about 1½ years and that the these men have an average of eight additional partners per year outside of their steady relationship. In this report, we will take you step by step into the study to see whether the claims are true.

The FRC’s Briefs Are Showing

Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council submitted an Amicus Brief to the Maryland Court of Appeals as that court prepared to consider the issue of gay marriage. We examine just one small section of that brief to reveal the junk science and fraudulent claims of the Family “Research” Council.

Review: The Gay Report

When Karla Jay and Allan Young published The Gay Report in 1979, it quickly a favorite source of statistics for many anti-gay extremists. But before you accepts these statistic at face value, you should examine the inner workings of this survey very carefully. What you learn might surprise you.

Daniel Fetty Doesn’t Count

The FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics aren’t as complete as they ought to be, and their report for 2004 was no exception. In fact, their most recent report has quite a few glaring holes. Holes big enough for Daniel Fetty to fall through.

Heterosexual Menace: Teaching Heterosexuality In The Public Schools

Jim Burroway

May 29th, 2009

If opposite-sex marriage becomes legal, then they’ll be teaching heterosexuality to your children in the public schools:

Radical heterosexualist Melissa Weber

A middle school teacher has been arrested after authorities said she had sexual trysts with a 14-year-old student in a Queens classroom after school.

Social studies teacher Melissa Weber was awaiting arraignment late Thursday on rape, sexual abuse and child endangerment charges. Prosecutors don’t know whether she has a lawyer, and no telephone number can be found for her home.

Prosecutors say Weber had sex with the boy seven times at M.S./I.S. 8 this month and last. Prosecutors say the teen’s mother heard about the liaison Wednesday and found hundreds of contacts with the 27-year-old teacher in her son’s cell phone.

Comments

Johnson

Wassup with the female middle school teachers and their students lately. Just recently here in Utah (yes, UTAH) two different middle school teachers were arrested for having sex with their teen students.

AJD

Regan DuCasse

There were two shootings last week of good, college bound young high school senior football players.
Gang members are suspected of the killings, of course.

More and more the scourge of gangs, the reach of drug cartels into our nation and their violence in Mexico for example and the sex trafficking of young girls in Atlanta and Miami makes the preoccupation with marriage equality a hollow claim about ‘saving families, children and marriage’.
The economic downturn can put marriages and families at risk, certainly drugs or alcoholism always have and domestic violence wipes out WHOLE families.

And yet, the celebrations coming from the opposition to marriage equality over the court decision gives a whole new meaning to empty symbolism and gestures.

The infamous Mary Kay LeTourneau who had sex with her 13 year old student, bore two children by him at that time is now on a tasteless “Hot For Teacher” tour with her student now husband and club DJ.

As long as these opposite sex pedophiles wait long enough, they can marry their victim. While adult gay couples together for decades with children between then cannot.

Sometimes I’ve felt like the productive have been under siege for a long time. Those who have gained educational and economic success are having their financial stability taken away. Certainly gay couples have been stung in other ways similar, but we’re all in pain from the economy, but lack of marriage makes a family that much more vulnerable.

At the rally and march Tuesday evening, I met the friendliest of strangers and saw many, many friends.
Lots of beautiful children, of course.

I am confronted, through my work, with the most depraved, cruel and heartless of human behaviors. Making the opposition’s insistence that says gay people do violence to children and marriage would destroy the family and society so laughable and stupid, it’s hard NOT to be impolite and say so.

It’s even more stupid that even when I mention my background and right away people know I am confronted with terrible things, some will STILL say my support of gay people means I have no idea what evil and immorality are.

I look at the abuses heterosexuals heap on ALL of us, put the legacy of who has had the most power to do so in context and the logical conclusions are easy.
But logic isn’t at work here.
The gender bias when it comes to FEMALE pedo and ephebaphiles is appalling.

Sometimes it’s subtle. Like women who nurse their sons well into second grade.
Or heterosexuals sensing homosexuality in a child, sexually assault or abuse them to ‘turn’ that youngster straight.
And the female victims of priest abuse have pretty much been rendered invisible and silent.

But silence and invisibility are useful tools for abuse of other human beings to continue. That an entire segment of human society is blamed is dangerous and wrongful and a great deal of perspective is lost.

But when someone like me who works in law enforcement is treated as if ignorant of what really goes on because I won’t engage in gay defamation, then it’s outright insanity that fuels the situation.
And that is of course, unacceptable.
This frump of a woman who is being arrested will probably have the book thrown at her because she’s not pretty and no one could POSSIBLY understand why anyone would have sex with her.
But in that situation, SHE had the power and the responsibility. And sexual abuse isn’t about attraction, but POWER.

Ignorance is deadly and considering how we can access education and have the choice to learn to know better: such determined ignorance about gender and sexuality in these times is unforgivable and yes, that education deserves to be shoved down the throats of those so determined to be ignorant because THAT is what damages and hurts children.